Category: General

• Rosh Hashanah: New Year New Traditions

  

  As the sun sets on Wednesday evening a new year begins on the Jewish calendar.  Holidays are a time for both nostalgia and memory; they are a time for change and new chapters.  For some, the holidays come with an already ingrained sense of how to observe and where to tap into community.  Long-standing traditions…

• Month of Elul: New Things in an Old Space 

  

  When a person does something for the first time that they plan to do many times over, it is customary in Jewish tradition to say the words of shechiyanu – a blessing offering gratitude for reaching a certain moment in time and for being sustained to experience a new season. Shechiyanu! This is Third Space…

• Rabbi Jessy Dressin Helms a New Community Crossroads Near Druid Hill Park

  

  Inspired by Sixth & I—Washington, D.C.’s nondenominational arts hub in a historic synagogue—Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh will offer programming focused on building community relationships. When Rabbi Jessy Dressin moved to Baltimore in 2012, she would pass the iconic Shaarei Tfiloh synagogue on her stroll from Bolton Hill to the old Union Craft Brewing on…